Title: Composite RAID for rapid prototyping data grid

Authors: Minoru Uehara

Addresses: Dept. of Information Sciences and Arts, Toyo University, 2100 Kujirai, Kawagoe, Saitama, 3508585, Japan

Abstract: Recently, the demand of low-cost large-scale storages increases. We developed Virtual Large-Scale Disks (VLSDs) toolkit for constructing virtual disk-based distributed storages, which aggregate free spaces of individual disks. However, to construct such large-scale data grid, we need to understand how to implement more complex RAID. In this paper, we propose Composite RAID (CRAID) that is a design methodology for rapid prototyping complex RAID. CRAID can represent more complex RAID than the conventional methodology. In this paper, we introduce two examples of CRAID-based complex RAIDs and then we show how effective CRAID is.

Keywords: RAID; data grid; VLSDs; virtual large-scale disks; rapid prototyping; large-scale storage; storage reliability; fault tolerance.

DOI: 10.1504/IJWGS.2011.038388

International Journal of Web and Grid Services, 2011 Vol.7 No.1, pp.58 - 74

Published online: 17 Apr 2015 *

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